Product Description

The VTech Fly & Learn Globe allows a child to "travel" with the shift of the built-in joystick. Five discovery modes allow your child to engage in endless journeys of fun and learning. With all the opportunities to make exciting new discoveries, children will want to leave on this jet plane every chance they get! As the plane moves around the world, it introduces the continents, oceans, fun animal facts, local music and highlights, ancient wonders of the world, people and languages and more. Requires 3 "AA" batteries (included). Measures 12 inches tall.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5607 in Toys & Games
• Brand: VTech
• Model: 80-65200
• Number of items: 1

Features

• Moving electronic talking globe teaches geography, places, world wonders, people, languages and music
• Built-in joystick controls plane directions, allowing it to move North, South, East or West while globe rotates
• Friendly pilot transforms all journeys into experiences of learning and fun
• 5 Discovery modes teach technical terms and world geography
• With all the opportunities to make exciting new discoveries, children will want to leave on this jet plane every chance they get!

Editorial Review
Pilot your own voyage of world discovery with the Vtech Fly & Learn Globe. With five discovery modes that encourage real exploration, young adventurers quickly learn about continents, foreign languages, music, and world wonders. Learn Spanish from a friend in Mexico. Fly over Machu Picchu or the rainforests in South America. As the globe spins beneath the puttering plane, a helpful magnifying glass offers close-up views of fantastic sites. Each tilt of the pilot’s joystick offers a new world of exploration, a chance to hear new languages, or see new places. While the built-in joystick can be a little hard to control for the most junior pilots, music and words keep them interested, engaged, and learning. The globe also offers quizzes and parent-friendly features like an automatic shutoff that preserves battery life. Requires four AA batteries (not included). --Heather Lyndon

From the Manufacturer
Young explorers and adventurer can jump right into the pilot’s seat to get a closer look at our living planet. With the Fly & Learn Globe™, junior geographers explore new sites and meet around the world without ever leaving home. Five discovery modes allow your child to engage in endless travels of fun and learning. With all the opportunities to make exciting new discoveries, children will want to leave on this jet plane every chance they get!

Customer Reviews

It's ok
I was really excited to get this for my 4 yr old dd last X-mas but she has never really played with it. It is very hard to navigate the plane and it doesn't stop when you reach your destination. Anyway, I would not recommend it. However, my 2 yr old liked playing with it but didn't learn anything...he just liked the plane!

Fly & Learn Globe
The Fly and Learn Globe is a talking globe aimed at the preschool market. Unlike standard globes, it only depicts the continents and limits its teaching to approximately 20 or so "destinations". Also unique to this product is an attached plane that the child can "fly around the world" with the attached joy stick.

There are five ways to play. Mode 1 (My first atlas): Landing on a destination will allow the child to hear about the place, its famous sites, the people that live there or learn some simple phrases (hello, thank you, good bye) in the native language. Mode 2 (Find our friends): The child listens to clues and is rewarded if they can fly to the correct friend. Some of the "destinations" are people. Mode 3 (Quiz time): The child listens to clues and is rewarded if they fly to the correct location. Mode 4 (Flight Adventures): The child is asked to find a series of locations. Mode 5 (Music & Sounds): When the child lands on a "destination" they will hear local music or a corresponding sound.

I love VTech toys but this one misses the mark. A preschooler will enjoy flying the plane and hearing the plane sounds but will not have the eye hand coordination to land exactly on the destinations. If they can't hit the targeted destinations then they really will not be able to play in anything but Mode 1. In addition, activating the game requires a double click which I don't know if some preschoolers will remember to do. Finally, the places chosen for destinations don't quite make alot of sense to this reviewer and give a slightly unusual introduction to geography.

Amazon lists the age range as 36 months -12 years but children old enough to master this toy will be very turned off by the graphics and the limited number of destinations. My son is 7 and declared this a baby toy. If you are thinking about getting a talking globe, I would try one of the Leap Frog products.

needs more work at the lab
The concept was a good idea, but the execution a bit flawed. It was difficult to get the joystick to move to the exact location. It also didn't register the place that you wanted to find out about when you clicked on it.